Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Earlier this year, San Jose politicians announced they were targeting the thousands of abandoned shopping carts clogging creeks and blighting streets. Now the first data on a pilot program aimed at ...

Re: “Shopping cart retrieval plan studied” (Page B1, Dec. 26). All the plans under consideration by San Jose to prevent the thousands of shopping carts from being abandoned around the city place all ...

Dollar stores used to be a symbol of tight budgets, now they’re a stop for households making six figures. Recent earnings from Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and Walmart all point to the same thing: ...